Metering device for viscous liquids with a plurality of selectively engaged metering pumps, metering channels, supply channels, and bypass channels for flush cleaning

US6494687B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BRAND GMBH & CO KG · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Lang · Ettringen, DE
• Peter Mahler · Kreuzwertheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 16, 2001
• Grant date: Dec 17, 2002
• Expiry date: Mar 16, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/4358
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A metering device for liquids, especially for viscous liquids, preferably liquids which are to be metered under sterile conditions, with a plurality of metering pumps which can be simultaneously actuated. To achieve an optimized mode of operation, it is provided that the surfaces on the bottom of the pump holding plate and the top of the metering channel plate are made as adjoining sealing surfaces, forming a seal, that, in the pump holding plate, there is a bypass channel with outlet openings in the sealing surface on the bottom of the pump holding plate for each metering pump and that by the relative displacement of the pump holding plate and the metering channel plate with respect to one another, the outlet openings of the bypass channel can be moved into a position in which the bypass channel connects the respective metering channel to the respective supply channel in the metering channel plate. In this position, the respective outlet opening is also connected to the metering channel or the supply channel so that overall flushing is possible.